So...which exchange do we use to call the all time high?

[Elwar]

It is quite the momentous occassion, but which exchange do we go by? It may even be the Chinese exchange that passes it which is not as exciting as seeing it pop over the threshold on a USD chart.

[antimattercrusader]

I'm going Gox, since that was the last ATH. But it'll be "real" when it hits stamp.

[Qoheleth]

The volume on BTC China, Gox, and Bitstamp are about the same, so any of them passing the ATH is probably okay.

I mean, unless you're disqualifying Gox because they got booted out of SWIFT, in which case we're still like $12 away.

[ArticMine]

Well one can take the ATH of 288 CAD or 283 USD on Virtex in April and look for an exchange other than MTGox to exceed it. The most likely candidate is one of the exchanges in China where one is looking for 1726 CNY. There is more to Bitcoin than MTGox. 

[derpinheimer]

I'm going Gox, since that was the last ATH. But it'll be "real" when it hits stamp.

You mean when stamp hits $266? And I agree if so.

[antimattercrusader]

Yes.

[phlogistonq]

The uncertainty is annoying, because now we don't know when to start panic buying.

[ArticMine]

The uncertainty is annoying, because now we don't know when to start panic buying.

The market is not efficient at all because of the difficulty of moving fiat between exchanges, and I do not just mean the MTGox issues here.